Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters season 3 explained

Season Name:	Yu-Gi-Oh! Enter the Shadow Realm
Season Number:	3
Bgcolour:	990066
Num Episodes:	47
Network:	TV Tokyo
Episode List:	List of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters episodes

The third season of the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, created by Kazuki Takahashi, was originally broadcast from March 12, 2002, to February 11, 2003. The English adaptation, broadcast on Kids' WB, aired from November 1, 2003 to September 4, 2004.

The first half of the season follows an original story arc, where Yugi and his friends are transported to a digital universe, created and controlled by Noah, Seto Kaiba's adoptive brother. They are forced to duel the Big Five in order to escape with their minds in their own bodies. The second half of the season focuses on the resumption of the Battle City tournament finals, where the final four duelists, Yugi, Joey (Jonouchi), Kaiba, and Marik, fight for the championship title.

The third season of Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (also renamed as Yu-Gi-Oh! Enter the Shadow Realm in the English-dubbed adaptation) was formerly licensed by 4Kids Entertainment in North America and other English-speaking countries, and was also distributed by Funimation through North American home video distribution rights and also distributed by Warner Bros. Television Animation on North American television rights, when it aired on Kids’ WB! and Cartoon Network, also in North America. It is now licensed and distributed by 4K Media.

Cast and characters

Japanese

Regular

Hidehiro Kikuchi as Hiroto Honda
Hiroki Takahashi as Katsuya Jonouchi
Kenjiro Tsuda as Seto Kaiba
Maki Saitoh as Anzu Mazaki
Shunsuke Kazama as Yugi Moto/Yami Yugi

Recurring

Chisa Yokoyama as Noa Kaiba
Haruhi Nanao as Mai Kujaku
Hiroomi Sugino as Souichiro Ota^[1]
Hisashi Izumi as Kogoro Daimon^[2]
Junkoh Takeuchi as Mokuba Kaiba
Konta as Rashid Ishtar
Mika Sakenobe as Shizuka Kawai
Rica Matsumoto as Ryou Bakura/Yami Bakura
Ryo Naitou as Ryuji Otogi
Ryousuke Otani as Shuzo Otaki^[3]
Shinichi Yashiro as Chikuzen Oka
Shin-tarou Sonooka as Kounosuke Oshita^[4]
Sumi Shimamoto as Isis Ishtar
Tadashi Miyazawa as Sugoroku Mutou
Tetsuya Iwanaga as Malik Ishtar
Tetsuo Komura as Gozaburo Kaiba

Minor

Masami Suzuki as Ghost Kotsuzuka
Norihisa Mori as Satake
Sakura Nogawa as Isis Ishtar (child)

English

Regular

Amy Birnbaum as Téa Gardner
Greg Abbey as Tristan Taylor
Wayne Grayson as Joey Wheeler
Dan Green as Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Eric Stuart as Seto Kaiba

Recurring

Michael Alston Baley as Odion Ishtar
Maddie Blaustein as Solomon Muto
Megan Hollingshead as Mai Valentine
Tara Jayne as Mokuba Kaiba
Karen Neil as Ishizu Ishtar
Lisa Ortiz as Serenity Wheeler
Andrew Rannells as Noah Kaiba
J.T. Ross as Marik Ishtar/Yami Marik
Marc Thompson as Duke Devlin and Gansley
Robert O'Gorman as Crump
David Wills as Gozaburo Kaiba and Nezbitt
Tom Souhrada as Leichter
Christopher Collet as Johnson
Ted Lewis as Bakura Ryou/Yami Bakura

Episodes

Home media

Between March and October 2005, Funimation Productions released the second half of the season over five volumes of DVDs, each containing 4 - 5 episodes.^[5] ^[6] ^[7] ^[8] ^[9] They later released the complete season on July 29, 2008. In late 2013, Cinedigm and 4K Media Inc. reached a distribution agreement that would result in the release of every episode from the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise on DVD and Blu-ray and to digital retailers.^[10] The complete third season, titled Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic: Season 3, was released on January 14, 2014, on DVD. It was also released in two volumes, like the previous seasons, on the same day both digitally and on DVD.^[11] ^[12]

DVD release

*Yu-Gi-Oh: The Complete Third Season*
Set details
47 episodes 1034 minutes 7-disc set 1.33:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English Dubbed: English English (Dolby Digital Stereo)
Release dates
Region 1
^[13]

*Yu-Gi-Oh*								Classic: Season 3
Set details
47 episodes 1034 minutes 6-disc set 1.33:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English Dubbed: English English (Dolby Digital Stereo)
Release dates
Region 1
^[14]

References

General

Web site: Season 2. January 14, 2013. Yu-Gi-Oh!. Watch Series.
Web site: Cast. January 14, 2013. Yu-Gi-Oh!. TV.com.

Specific

Notes and References

Web site: Behind the Voice Actors — Hiroomi Sugino. Behind the Voice Actors. Inyxception Enterprises, Inc.. January 12, 2014.
Web site: Behind the Voice Actors — Hisashi Izumi. Behind the Voice Actors. Inyxception Enterprises, Inc.. January 12, 2014.
Web site: Behind the Voice Actors — Ryosuke Otani. Behind the Voice Actors. Inyxception Enterprises, Inc.. January 12, 2014.
Web site: Behind the Voice Actors — Shintaro Sonooka. Behind the Voice Actors. Inyxception Enterprises, Inc.. January 12, 2014.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Season 3, Vol. 1 - Back to Battle City. B0006ZXJLQ. Amazon.com. January 13, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Season 3, Vol. 2 - Darkness Returns. B0007LXOSC. Amazon.com. May 24, 2005 . January 13, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Season 3, Vol. 3 - Clashin the Colisseum. B0007LXOSM. Amazon.com. May 24, 2005 . January 13, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Season 3, Vol. 4 - Battle for the Bronze. B0009CTTUG. Amazon.com. January 13, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Season 3, Vol. 5 - The Final Face Off. B0009MAO6Y. Amazon.com. October 18, 2005 . January 13, 2016.
Web site: Cinedigm and 4K Media Inc. Partner to Bring Yu-Gi-Oh!, One of the Most Successful Anime Series of All-Time, into the Home Entertainment Marketplace. Cinedigm. Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. January 14, 2014. August 26, 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304184750/http://investor.cinedigm.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=787172. March 4, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic: Season 3, Vol. 1. B00FGVRZZG. Amazon.com. January 13, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic: Season 3, Vol. 2. B00FGVRZY2. Amazon.com. January 13, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh: The Complete Third Season (1996). B0018TLRS6. Amazon.com. January 13, 2016.
Web site: Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic: Season 3. B00FGVS06E. Amazon.com. January 13, 2016.